(n.) The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
(n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
(n.) That which hedges in; inclosure.
(n.) The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(2) The impaled cardiac cells which generated transitional action potentials were identified in serial sections and studied with the light and the electron microscopes.
(3) Impalements of sufficient quality to demonstrate inhibition by carotid baroreceptor stimulation (blind sac inflation) were obtained for 9 cells.
(4) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
(5) Electrical stimulation of the arcuate nucleus did not elicit any detectable synaptic response in impaled tanycytes, so that the functional significance of synaptoid contacts between neuroendocrine neurons and the postsynaptic tanycytes is not yet apparent.
(6) cell volume changes); luminal and contraluminal cell borders are well resolved for controlled microelectrode impalement.
(7) One of these interneurons was impaled intracellularly, characterized physiologically, and then labeled by intracellular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) injection to examine the distribution and ultrastructure of synapses.
(8) Application of TEA in the presence of bicuculline (10(-5) M) increased the amplitude and duration of the DS in neurons impaled with D890-containing electrodes.
(9) The relatively rare occurrence of this type of oscillation in impaled neurons, as compared with extracellular recordings in the same nucleus or to intracellular recordings in other dorsal thalamic nuclei, suggests that the interplay between the two intrinsic currents generating delta oscillation is particularly critical in lateral geniculate cells.
(10) The neurons are stimulated by a microelectrode impaled in the soma.
(11) Smooth muscle cells were impaled near the myenteric border between the circular and longitudinal layers.
(12) It is concluded that the leak impalement artifact is so significant in micro-electrode recordings from hamster eggs that it prevents routine reliable potential measurements.
(13) Intradendritic impalements were obtained to more accurately assess changes in the intracellular EPSP following HFS.
(14) Biological (stratum corneum) and artificial (cation-exchange resin beads, Bio-Rad AG 50W-X2) ion exchangers were impaled by glass microelectrodes filled with KCl solution.
(15) During whole-cell recordings, however, regular potential oscillations were observed in the cells that had not been impaled with a conventional microelectrode, as far as the Ca2+ buffer was not strong in the pipette solution.
(16) Following impalement with intracellular electrodes, the large calyciform nerve terminals innervating chick ciliary ganglion neurons exhibit pronounced inward rectification upon hyperpolarization that increases with increasing current strength.
(17) Human red cells in modified Ringer solution were impaled individually with 3 M KCl-filled glass microelectrodes.
(18) The physiological properties of these double-labelled corticospinal neurons were indistinguishable from those of comparable neurons which were impaled with biocytin-containing electrodes without prior RLM-labelling, and neurons studied with potassium acetate-filled electrodes in similar areas.
(19) This confirms (i) the intracellular location of the microelectrode and the absence of impalement artifacts, and (ii) the ineffectiveness of ADH upon the electromotive forces of the inner border.
(20) To suppress contractile responses and thereby facilitate sustained impalements, the muscle strips were bathed with a hypertonic solution containing sucrose.
Joining
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Join
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(3) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(7) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
(8) Using a novel method for joining DNA sequences, we have exploited this difference between the two enzymes to identify the regions of the RT that contribute to the compounds' inhibitory activities.
(9) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(10) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
(11) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(12) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(13) The method involves the selective joining of two synthetic fragments, namely residues 1-65 of the apopeptide with Met65 replaced by homoserine lactone and residues 66-104 of the protein in the presence of fragment 1-25 of the native heme-containing peptide.
(14) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(15) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
(16) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(17) The ninaC gene encodes two retinal specific proteins (p132 and p174) consisting of a protein kinase domain joined to a domain homologous to the head region of the myosin heavy chain.
(18) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
(19) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(20) From the decreased alignment at the N-terminus and the presence of additional residues compared with bacterial phosphorylases, we conclude that the regulatory sequences that also carry the phosphorylation site in the muscle enzyme were joined to a presumed ancestral precursor gene by gene fusion after separation of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic lines of descent.